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Official Strength Training Thread

Already the fitness thread is blowing up with strength training-related chatter, so now we will start this thread for the weight lifting, training for strength.

I just got thick-bar adapters to put over my regular bar, this will make the handle over 2" thick, and then my arms and hands will get hyooj. At first, I will need to take down some weight from my sets until the hand and arm strength catches up.

But this thread is about getting strong and helping the Knicks community gain strength.

I can't wait to have my thick bar, I can't wait for my arms and hands to be hyooj. This feels like the first time I found out about squats.

I gotta say the squat for a weight lift... it activates the quads, hamstring, calves and abs. I guess the jump squat is probably the variation with the most carry over to basketball (I see a lot of ball players do them).

I'm considering the question of the week and I will go with deadlifts with thick bar, or thick bar adapter. It's your entire back and the grip, the grip and arm strength is the difference between the guys that drive to the hole strong and the guys that have it stripped. With strong arms and grip you get from thick bar training, you can take it inside and give the business!!

And with a strong back, you can't get knocked over or moved out of position easily when boxing out or setting picks!!

Going back to the question of the week after watching Bags Barrels and Beyond, at the end of the video B-Kube gives you the secret to dominating any sport you play: make an obstacle course with sandbags and run it hard, from one thing to the other; say: carry sandbag, do chin ups, sandbag, etc.,

But I just ordered a duffle bag to make a sandbag, I'm gonna do ONE DAY of sandbag freestyle every week, along with my other two sessions of barbell lifting (squats, deadlift, presses).

This should be make me best by season. Maybe next weekend I will do something like lifting the sandbag overhead, or putting on a chair, or walk with it. We'll see.

This is the bag I got:

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I haven't decided how I will fill it yet, but thinking about heavy duty garbage bags, put a bag of sand in there, duct tape it, and all in the duffle. It varies, Brooks Kubik says he put a 5 lb plate in each of his sandbags, to give more balance problems, make it harder.

That seems to be where we are today based on the latest peer-reviewed scientific evidence. Unless you're training to accomplish a task that must be repeated over and over, there appears to be no good reason for most people to spend hours in the gym doing set after set. Volume training works, as my last article concluded, but in most cases the strength and size gains are no better than result from warming-up and performing one hard set.

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But you see what this means??

Multiple reps are useless in most cases!!

You focus on ONE HARD REP at a HEAVY WEIGHT, and that's all you need, AND IT'S EASIER TO MAINTAIN PERFECT FORM, where if you had 5, 10, 15, 20 repetitions, you have that many more chances to suffer a breakdown in form, which is very serious.

But even 1 "heavy" set.....in theory I know it makes perfect sense, and I know a lot of dudes who incorporate something similar into their training from time to time and it works.

I just think in reality, for MOST people, who aren't elite athletes, it's very tough to truly do that 1 work-set at the intensity and max-effort which it is predicated upon.

IMO, I think most people who have not yet achieved a high level of mastery of their own connection to their bodies and their fitness, not tackle something like that.

I watched the video again, and at around 46:00 he says that heavy singles work, and he means single lifts too, and he tells us "don't listen to that person" if someone tells you heavy singles don't work. Check the video bro, it's awesome Brooks Kubik is a legend.

Check it out, the log I picked up today: I got it for free, some divorced lady was giving it away on craigslist up in North Jersey, they were going to make a table with it, she asked me what I will do, I said "lift it and move it" , like I was insane she looked at me, but anyway, check it out, this will build crazy strength once I can actually clean it and lift it over head, but before this happens I have to make two cut-outs where I will install metal handles, so that I can manipulate it. Also, it is hand peeled and mostly smooth, but it can stand for a little bit more work because of some patches where there is a strong danger of splinters going into the hand:

It's about 4'2" with a 13" diameter, and I estimate it between 150-200 lbs, but we will confirm the weight later on: